Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors

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Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 2

Another year of Sundays, ready when you need it.

Year two of ministry doesn't look like year one. The newness settles, the calendar fills, and the Sundays keep coming — whether you're ready or not. The question is never whether you'll preach; it's whether you'll have the week to build the message.

Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 2 is a dependable foundation for every season of the year. All 52 outlines are complete messages — fully developed, expository, rooted in God's Word, and written from the notes I actually preach from. They go well beyond a simple three-point skeleton. Each one gives you the structure, the flow, and the Scripture opened up, while leaving the message yours to finish: your illustrations, your application, your voice.

Inside you'll find three complete sermon series — including a Christmas series for the high-pressure holiday stretch — plus developed sub-points and illustration ideas you can build on. The outlines work for Sunday morning, Sunday night, or Wednesday teaching. Preach them as they are, or use them as the starting point and let the sermon go further.

The structure and the research are already behind you. You bring the prayer, the study, and the Spirit's leading. This book gives you back the week.

See every sermon and its text in the reference list below.

Sermon Reference List

Every sermon outline in Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 2, with its scripture reference.
#SermonReference
1A Fresh StartExodus 2:1-10
2What Is A Christian?Acts 11:19-26
3Abnormal1 Peter 2:4-12
4The Fear of the LordProverbs 1:7
5The Call-Promise-and ChallengeNumbers 13:26-33
6The Most Important Exam2 Corinthians 13:5
7RequirementsDeuteronomy 10:12-22
8What the Lord Supper Means1 Corinthians 11:23-40
9Just Who Are You?Colossians 2:6-20
10Jesus - Our RedemptionGalatians 4:3-7
11The Tempter and UsGenesis 3:1-7
12Jesus - The PropitiationRomans 3:21-26
13What’s the Point of a Right Life?Romans 12:1-2
14A Church in TroubleRevelation 3:14-22
15Palm Sunday - Jesus is Not Always What We Want Him to BeRomans 3:21-26
16The Sacrifice of AtonementRomans 3:21-26
17Out of the BlueMatthew 27:15-26
18ChasingPsalm 63:1-8
19A Woman Who Makes a DifferenceActs 9:36-43
20Messed Up PeopleGenesis 9:18-23
21A Matter of FaithHebrews 11:1-6
22What Faith Has to OfferHebrews 11:32-40
23Something to Glory InJeremiah 9:23-24
24One Eye on the Enemy and One on the WallNehemiah 4:13-17
25By Our LoveJohn 13:31-35
26Crime and PunishmentLeviticus 24:10-16
27Follow Jesus or BustLuke 9:57-62
28A Challenge from GodMalachi 3:6-12
29Because of OthersMark 2:1-5
30HopeMark 5:24-34
31Purpose in ProblemsMatthew 14:22-33
32RepentanceMatthew 6:25-33
33Reasons for Our ThanksgivingColossians 1:1-6
34Church on FireActs 2:1-4
35Church on Fire - Fan the Flame2 Timothy 1:5-7
36The Name of JesusPhilippians 2:5-11
37When Did Christmas Begin?1 Peter 1:18-21
38MemorialJoshua 4:1-7
39Misconceptions - The ChurchMatthew 16:18
40Misconceptions – WorshipJohn 4:19-26
41Misconceptions – DiscipleshipLuke 9:23-24
42Misconceptions – Ministry1 Peter 4:10
43Misconceptions – EvangelismActs 1:8
44Misconceptions – MissionsActs 1:8
45Misconceptions – FellowshipActs 2:42-47
46Seriously - Exercise Naked1 Timothy 4:6-10
47Seriously - The Simple Life2 Corinthians 11:2-4
48Seriously - Peace and QuietPsalm 46:1-11
49Seriously – SurrenderPhilippians 2:3-8
50Xmas: What’s Missing in Your Christmas? - AmazementGenesis 3:15
51Xmas: What’s Missing in Your Christmas? - The SupernaturalMatthew 1:18-25
52Xmas: What’s Missing in Your Christmas? - Reflection and PerspectiveLuke 2:19